Corset.



PATENTED AUG. 11,.1903.

T. SGHOTTLANDER.

CORSET.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 1, 1903.

H0 MODEL= WITNESSES d No. 736,029. Patented August 11, 1903.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THEODORE SCHOTTLANDER, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO GEORGE C. BATCHELLER & COMPANY, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

CORSET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 736,029, dated August 11, 1903.

"Application filed June 1, 1903. Serial No. 159,656. (No model.)

T at whom it may concern: My improvement contemplates an integral Be it known that I, THEODORE SOHOTT- cloth reinforce for each section of the corsets, LANDER, a citizen of the United States, resideach reinforce comprising a verticallydising at Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield posed strip 1, which is stitched to the face of and State of Connecticut, have invented certhe corset at the front edge nearthe busk, tain new and usefullmprovementsin Corsets; said strip having a lateral extension 2 at the and I do hereby declare the following to be a bottom shaped so as to conform to the genfull, clear, and exact description of the ineral shape of the corset and stitched to the vention, such as will enable others skilled in latter and extending rearwardly toward the 10 the art to which it appertains to make and back of the corset to any suitable point apuse the same. proximately near the hip-section. My invention relates to certain new and It will thus be readily understood that each useful improvements in corsets, but more par section of the corset is provided with a reinticularly has reference to the reinforcing of force-strip which hasno seam whatever, and 15 the corset, so that there can be no stretching therefore there can be no stretching of the of the same along the lower edge, while at the corset along the lower edge leading from the same time all objectionable seams at the lower busk to the hip-sections. edge of the corset shall be dispensed with. I claim a In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is In a corset the reinforce-strips comprising 20 an elevation of a pair of corsets constructed vertical portions stitched to the front edges in accordance with my improvement, and of the corset near the bush and ]aterally-pro- Fig, 2 a side elevation of one section of such jectingportionsintegral with the vertical porcorsets. tions and extending along the lower part of Similar numbers of reference denote like the corset to points approximately near the 2 5 parts in both figures of the drawings. hip-sections, substantially as set forth.

Heretofore it has been a common practice In testimony whereof I affix my signature to stitch a strip of suitable cloth along the in presence of two witnesses.

front edges of each corset-section near the busks and to unite this strip by a seam to the THEODORE SCHOTTLANDER. 0 lower strips that extend from the hip-section to the first-mentioned strips; but these seams Witnesses:

are very objectionable for obvious reasons, F. W. SMITH, J r.,

and, moreover, a corset equipped in this man- M. T. LONGDEN'.

nor will readily stretch at the lower edges. 

